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Biopsych Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dualism | The notion that the mind is subject only to spiritual interactions, while the body is subject only to material interactions. |
| Consciousness | The state of awareness of one's own existence and experience. |
| Phrenology | The belief that bumps on the skull reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral faculties. |
| Reductionism | The scientific strategy of breaking a system down into increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it. |
| Levels of Analysis | The scope of experimental approaches. |
| Neural Plasticity | The ability of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment. |
| Correlation | The covariation of two measures. |
| Behavioral Intervention | An approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant changes in body structure or function. |
| Dependent Variable | The factor that an experimenter measures to monitor a change in response to changes in an independent variable. |
| Independent Variable | The factor that is manipulated by an experimenter. |
| Somatic Intervention | An approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves manipulating body structure or function and looking for resultant changes in behavior. |
| Neuron | The basic unit of the nervous system. (Nerve cell) |
| Ontogeny | The process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime - that is, grows up and grows old. |
| Conserved | In the context of evolution, referring to a trait that is passed on from a common ancestor or two or more descendant species. |
| Biological Psychology | The study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. |
| Neuroscience | The study of the nervous system. |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | The field of study concerned with the ways in which nervous system activity manifests in behavior. |